Animation students and alumni in the spotlight

Students in and new alumni of the animation program at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema will be well represented on the 2012 international film festival circuit this fall.

In Montreal, Prayer Beads by Han Han Li (BFA 12), Tengri by Alisi Telengut, The Daisy by Agathe Bray-Bourret and Khachaturian Meets Dali by Kirill Fessenko will be screened at the World Film Festival (August 23 to September 3) in the student category.

An unprecedented eight Concordia student films will be shown at the Ottawa Animation Festival, the biggest Animation festival in North America (September 19 to 23). Check out the schedule for screenings of Frédérick Letendre-Cyr's A Tea Time Conversation, Sharron Mirsky's Coins, Pascal Laquerre's Nectar and Kamil Chajder's Snore Train, plus Li's Prayer Beads, Telengut's Tengri, Bray-Bourret's The Daisy and Like This by David Martineau-Lachance (BFA 12).

At YoungCuts (starts September 27), fans of the genre will be able to see Alexandre Boyadjiev's Tiles, Hamish Lambert's 01 and Fessenko's Khachaturian meets Dali, as well as Autistic Dissonance by Eric Bent (BFA 12), The Songbird by Anna Berezowsky (BFA 12) and Tengri by Alisi Telengut.

Three students were chosen as part of this summer's Fantasia film festival (July 19 to August 7): Felipe Castaneda for The Colonel's Golden Fish, Fessenko for Khachaturian Meets Dali and Li for Prayer Beads.

Other 2012 international screenings of Concordia animation films are:

Martineau-Lachance's Like This at the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival and CinemaDaMare; Telengut's Tengri at the KROK International Animated Film Festival; Bent's Autistic Dissonance at the Other Film Festival and California International Animation Festival - the latter screening won Bent second place in the 2D animation category.